Bushfire Destroys Australian Rainforest

8,000 hectares of Australia's largest temperate rainforest have already been destroyed by bushfire. The Tarkine rainforest, in northwest Tasmania, was protected in 2005 in a federal conservation reserve. With more 60 rare and threatened species, the rainforest is recognized as having world heritage significance.

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Read the story on News.com.au:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23394914-1702,00.html

Visit the Tarkine National Coalition, an environment group promoting the protection of the Tarkine Wilderness Area:
http://www.tarkine.org/

Visit Rainforest Action Network's Web site:
http://ran.org/

photo courtesy Lost in Tasmania, Creative Commons